Tag Archives: web 2.0

Twitter: Autofollow ’sends the wrong message’

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 31 March 2009
Just got a mass e-mail from Biz Stone explaining why Twitter accounts with autofollow enabled (this was originally an option in user settings) will no longer be grandfathered in. And in fact, there will be no more autofollow accounts. I’ve always been mixed on this, however, I now feel that it is in the service’s [...]
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Facebook’s Walled Garden a Gulag?

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 16 February 2009
On February 4 Facebook revised their Terms of Service, removing a clause stating that user content would no longer be under license to Facebook. Well, now the terms indicate that anything you ever upload or share to your facebook profile — regardless of whether your account is active — is Facebook’s property to do whatever they [...]
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Inauguration dot tv

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 17 January 2009
San Jose Mercury News made a funny about how new tech and lifestreaming will make this inauguration different from any before. It is amazing to see how fast things are changing. Let’s hope this is a budding trend for the better. Check out the column: http://m.mercurynews.com/sanjosemercury/db_12121/contentdetail.htm “I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear (Facebook status update [...]
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